Lisa Despain - Composer (BM ’91) one of the winners of the biennial Zepick Modern Opera Competition, along with librettist Rachel J. Peters, premiered their latest collaboration, Staggerwing, at Opera Kansas on July 30 at the Kansas Aviation Museum in Visit Wichita. A female-led world premiere, Staggerwing brings to life the historical and dangerous flight of aviatrixes Louis Thaden and Blanche Noyes as they compete for and win the transcontinental 1936 Bendix Trophy Race.

Regents Professor of Piano, Pamela Mia Paul, has been selected for The Cliburn Amateur Competition Jury for 2022. She also served as a member of the screening jury of the Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

https://cliburn.org/?performer=pamela-mia-paul

Diego Cubero, University of North Texas Assistant Professor of Music Theory has been invited to join the editorial board of the journal Music Theory Online.

Eric Hitt (MM ’19 and DMA student) was recognized as an international top ten semi-finalist then was awarded honorable mention in the final results of the International Society of Bassists International Double Bass Competition. 

https://www.isbworldoffice.com/performance.asp

 Haojian Wang, DMA student in viola, won second place in the AVS American Viola Society Orchestral Excerpt Competition.

PhD and DMA student Júlia Coelho, soprano, has been named 3rd place in the American Prize competition, university division, opera category. As well, she was named semifinalist in the oratorio and art song category, university division. 

https://tinyurl.com/Coelho3rd

Assistant Professor of Jazz Violin, Scott Tixier, was recently included in recording Academy Award winning Jon Batiste’s composition, NBA Anthem. The New York City recording was included in a National Basketball Association commercial, NBA “That’s Game.” 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It4nw4v95Yk

Twelve members of the College of Music faculty and alumni represented the University of North Texas at the International Computer Music Conference 2021 being held online from Chile. Faculty include Professor Jon Nelson, Associate Professor Panayiotis Kokoras, Associate Professor Andrew May, Principal Lecturer Elizabeth McNutt and alumni Jason Fick (PhD ’13), Mikel Keuhn (BM), Elainie Lillios (DMA ’00), Bradley Robin (PhD ’16), Seth Shafer (PhD ’17), Zach Thomas (PhD ’19) and Yu-Chung Tseng (MM ’94, DMA ’98) have music being presented at the conference while Jeffrey Morris (DMA ’07) provides a workshop.

From 2012. Regents Professor of Music, Eugene Corporon, conducts the University of North Texas Wind Symphony performing Ode to the End of the War, Opus 105 (1945) by Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) with four pianos and eight harps. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR-TmkutCzg

Andrew Chung, Assistant Professor of Music Theory, published an article entitled "Vibration, Difference, and Solidarity in the Anthropocene: Ethical Difficulties of New Materialist Sound Studies and Some Alternatives" in Resonance vol. 2, no. 2. 

https://tinyurl.com/SRChung